he work, amounts to L33,293, 9s. 101/4d.; and that
which has come in by the sale of Bibles, since the commencement, amounts
to L2,080, 9s. 101/2d.; by sale of tracts, L1,778, 2s. 5d.; and by the
payments of the children in the day schools, from the commencement,
L2,066, 13s. 41/2d.

The Lord is pleased to continue to allow us to see fruit in connection
with the orphan work, with reference to those who are _now_ under our
care, and we hear still again and again of cases in which those who were
_formerly_ under our care, have been led to declare themselves openly
for the Lord, besides those in whom we saw the work of grace manifestly
begun before they left the Orphan House.

CHAPTER XXIV.

CONCLUSION.

1857-1860.

THE HOUSE FOR FOUR HUNDRED OPENED--PRAYER MORE THAN
ANSWERED--THE RESORT IN TROUBLE--AN OUTPOURING OF THE SPIRIT ON
THE ORPHANS--LAND FOR A NEW BUILDING PURCHASED--"BUT ONE LIFE TO
SPEND FOR GOD"--"SCATTERING, YET INCREASING"--A MEMORABLE
YEAR--THE GERM OF THE IRISH REVIVAL--LETTER FROM AN ORPHAN--THE
FRUIT OF SIX MONTHS' PRAYER--THE RESULTS OF THE WORK--REVIVAL
AMONG THE ORPHANS.

Under date of Nov. 12, 1857, Mr. M. writes:--

The long looked-for and long prayed-for day had now arrived when the
desire of my heart was granted to me, to be able to open the house for
four hundred additional orphans. Much had I labored in prayer and active
engagements to accomplish what was to be done previously; and now things
were so far advanced as that the new house was ready for use; and a few
days after we began to receive the children into it. How precious this
was to me, such will be able to enter into, who, having day by day
prayed for a blessing for seven years, and often repeatedly on the same
day, at last obtain the desire of their heart. Yet this blessing came
not unexpectedly to me, but had been looked for, and had, in the full
assurance of faith, been expected to be obtained in God's own time.

Feb. 17, 1858. As far as I am able to judge, I have now all I require in
the way of pecuniary means for the third house also, so that I am able
to accomplish the full enlargement of the orphan work to one thousand
orphans.

By the conclusion of the year under consideration, Mr. M. had
received, from all sources, thirty-five thousand three hundred
and thirty-five pounds nine shillings threepence toward the new
Orphan Houses, "being actually three hundred and t